3rd March anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1707
  • India
  • "Death of Aurangzeb, last of the Mogul rulers of India"
• event
  • 1804
  • Great Britain
  • John Wedgwood (eldest son of the potter Josiah Wedgwood) founds The Royal Horticultural Society
  • 1938
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia .
  • 1969
  • United States
  • NASA launched Apollo 9 this mission was to test the lunar module
• Death
  • 1959
  • United States
  • "Death of Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (Abbott & Costello)"
  • 1983
  • Belgium
  • "Death of Hergé (Georges Rémi), Belgian comics writer and artist (‘Tintin’) ."
  • 1983
  • Hungary
  • "Death of Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-born British writer, advocate of voluntary euthanasia."
  • 1987
  • United States
  • "Death of Danny Kaye, Amercian actor and comedian"